Four-year gap between cancer patient’s PSA tests

Was never notified of elevated results; $700,000 settlement

A 78-year-old man died from metastatic prostate cancer on March 31, 2009. The plaintiff brought suit alleging that the patient died as the result of a four-year delay in the follow-up of an elevated PSA (prostate-specific antigen) test on Sept. 17, 2003.